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Stefanie Zito


               Pennsylvania, info@stefaniezito.com


               https://www.stefaniezito.com/

               DECADE: 2000s


               Home & rootedness are important themes in my work. In the mid 2000s I was ready to
               leave college & move to a new place where I had roots, yet limited experience, having
               moved around much in my years growing up. My inquiry of both rootedness & fluidity
                                                                                  led me to the trees along
                                                                                  a nearby river- including
                                                                                  some which were not
                                                                                  native. I gathered fallen
                                                                                  branches along the river
                                                                                  & stripped out the pulp
                                                                                  from which I made a
                                                                                  paper-like fiber,
                                                                                  spreading it over
                                                                                  manipulated panels to
                                                                                  convey a sense of
                                                                                  absence, presence, &
                                                                                  exchange.























                                                                                  Relocation, 2006

                                                                                  pulp mixture (basswood,
                                                                                  white oak, straw); pine
                                                                                  and masonite  

                                                                                  36" x 24" x 5" 

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